OpenVAS and Fedora

OpenVAS is available from the Fedora Package Collection for some releases now. If you don’t want to install OpenVAS, you can try the Fedora Security Lab. Using OpenVAS is an easy way to test how vulnerable systems are. Of course, if you are a paranoid user, you will say: “My system is encapsulate from the rest of the world, not network connection available!”. Not much fun to read e-mails this way…nowadays most computers are connected to a network.

The very first step is to install OpenVAS. If you are running the Fedora Security Lab no installation is needed. Otherwise, use yum or the package management frontend of your choice.